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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

damned shame they couldn't both lose

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

Ms. A reported extensive experience working with active appearance models (AAMs) and large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots—in school and as a practicing medical professional, with a firm understanding of how such technologies work. Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.”

from here. what follows just gets more screech-inducing

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I recall seeing someone elsewhere on the fedi trying to drum up a point like that a few weeks ago, their complaint was something like “I’ve been chased out of neurodivergent spaces for not being enough into LLMs”

No idea if their claim was true; I can definitely see the possibility of some ND neurotypes slanting more favourable, but nfi on the values

Not sure I buy the ground for that argument anyway tho. Lotta people used to smoke and society slapped all manner of regulation on that

I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ie the eventual safety team reach out included one of their ppl asking me to tell them what investigation vibecamp did, and i found out that they don't tell 'junior members' of the safety team about past things

yikes

that feels/across as an intentional way to set that team up for future failure (and, at a guess, sets up a plausible excuse to yeet participants when they fuck up, combined with making things disappear)

I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

random memory time!

I recall one of the people from the original rave generation here (ZA) once telling me about them taking GHB in combination with something else (I forget what), with a positively-framed comment of “it makes you feel like your eyes are aflame” — never understood the appeal, especially for that. so much so I’ve never even wanted to look the compound up on psychonautwiki

the rest of your remarks wrt goings on over in the bay area echo impressions I’ve gotten from things. kinda surprised to hear ket is that big - any idea how recent it is? I wonder whether it came about following from the findings around ket as a positive treatment for depression?

I was SA'd by Rationalists, AMA. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

Seconding the core sentiment here

Those that have gone through abuse and hurt already have a lot on their plate, and having to handhold others through it is a lot of work - try to be mindful of what you might be asking from another

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

sorry blake 🥺

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago

the two things can go together, and not removing said mod means that if they do not learn they can still do plenty enough damage elsewhere later on

and I say this out of the position of having fucked up in a mod role before

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago

seriously this just looks more and more embarassing the more you post about it

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

you realize that mod probably shouldn't be one, right?

what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago

did you know you can just use mk.i wetware eyeballs to read dipshits' posting histories? revelatory, I know!

and did you just roll into awful trying to pretend that it's a place that is favourable to nazis, genocidists, and other shitbags? or to imply that I am? seriously? because I'm pretty sure I've seen you post here before..

maybe you should stop making shit up in your head and acting like someone else said it

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what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on (join.piefed.social)
 

as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

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ethical Ai alliance, clause 0 (ethicalaialliance.org)
 

stumbled over this in my feed earlier, looks interesting

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community lego mindbricks project looking for help (pybricks.com)
 

seen via this

might be a cool thing some here may enjoy contributing to

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London permacomputing club (london.permacomputing.net)
 

Just ran across this and figured I’d link to people, looks interesting

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revisiiiioooooon! (2025.revision-party.net)
 

I forgot to post it here earlier but it's revision weekend!

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seeking input - android apps for things (awful.systems)
 

in the spirit of this post, but from the other side

I have a shitdroid that I can't root because the vendor sucks, but google can go fuck themselves too. combined with that I haven't androided much for about a decade and know nothing about the current ecosystem.. I'm looking for good alternatives to a few things. free/foss preferred but I'm pragmatic over picky - if there's a good paid option I'm willing to consider it

immediate known requirements include contact sync, calendar (more business than personal but either works if it's good). maybe also other things I should know about?

judicuous preference to things that support open protocols and self-hosting (i.e. anything that has to use their service to operate - no go)

tell me about good apps! I know about syncthing and photosync

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broken containment warning (awful.systems)
 

some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:

but buyers are warned that purchases will “require approval”

aww, the poor babies. even with literal nazis in the whitehouse they still feel uncomfortable to spout their weird shit

hopefully if this thing happens at all, someone documents the everliving hell out of every attendee

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new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out (www.youtube.com)
 

the precision and clarity are astounding

by the time the hilbert curves got there my mouth was hanging open, and it still gets better

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last week's thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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hands up anyone else who wants one (ideas.lego.com)
 

'cuz I definitely do

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good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE (www.prnewswire.com)
 

I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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